"Hmmm", Dr. Sloan responded, "Then let's go east. It seems quite an intriguing place". 
Dr. Sloan had heard of the torture of the sun but only rumors passed down from closed circles. It was one of the events that sparked his interest in leaning his experiments towards a more "vamp-centric" path. He, of course, was also working in curing or at least combating the lethality of ultraviolet light to his species. He had been successful in creating a lotion that allows someone like him to walk in the sun for a couple of hours. But only to be used in emergencies due to being only successful in reducing the sun rays to an minor, but quite annoying, stinging.